HORATIO
Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,
In the dead vast and middle of the night,
Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
Appears before them, and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd
By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled
Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful secrecy impart they did;
And I with them the third night kept the watch;
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
The apparition comes: I knew your father;These hands are not more like.

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We are introduced to the royal family of Denmark: King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, and Prince Hamlet. Claudius publicly mourns the loss of his brother, the late King Hamlet, and speaks of a possible invasion threat from the young, feisty Prince Fortinbras of Norway. He dispatches messengers to urge the Norwegian king to restrain his son.

Claudius grants Laertes, son of the courtier Polonius, permission to return to his university studies. Hamlet, too, wants to go back to university, but Claudius refuses to let him. Gertrude, Claudius, and Hamlet have a tense exchange regarding Hamlet’s father, whom Hamlet is still mourning,

After the king and queen leave, we learn that Hamlet doesn’t get along with either of them and holds them in contempt for marrying so soon after his father’s funeral. After Hamlet cracks some angry jokes about his parents' wedding, the guards and Horatio (his friend from university) tell Hamlet that they saw his father’s ghost lurking around the castle walls. Hamlet asks them to show him and they agree.

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Claudius and Gertrude don’t marry the day of King Hamlet’s funeral. Horatio says the one “followed hard upon” the other, and Hamlet describes the marriage as “within a month” of his father’s death, but there’s no mention anywhere of it being the same day. Further, this single day funeral/wedding is not “the event that brings the three guards from the previous scene over to address Hamlet.”

Of the three men, two are guards and one is Horatio.

The event taking place in Scene ii occurs some unspecified time after the wedding. We can deduce that it’s not the same day as the wedding, because Horatio attended the wedding and Horatio just spent all night on watch.